Menu / Toolbar Nightmare since Update to Indesign CC 2018

Thank you for your rant.  I found it very frustrating to be ready to work and find control panel missing, among other things, after an update.  This forum was helpful, especially the response to hold command + option + control + shift on the mac to reset.  How would i have known to do that without this forum???

@Derek: Thank you for your tip on resetting InDesign. That did the trick for me.

I am sure many others will find this tip and all other suggestions helpful.

Have you tried hitting the the tab key?

In addition to Derek's advice about preferences you might also want to try trashing your InDesign cache files. This is different than trashing preferences and can be very helpful with problems within the interface itself, such as those you describe.

to do so:

For Macintosh Users: The User Library folder in which InDesign’s cache files are stored is hidden by default on most Macintoshes. To access it make sure that InDesign is closed and click on the desktop to launch a Finder Window (Command-N).With this window in column view follow the path User>Home folder (it’s the folder with an icon that looks like a house—it may have the user’s name rather than “Home”) and click on the Home folder. With the Option Key pressed choose Library from the Finder Go Menu. “Library” will now appear within the Home folder. Within the Library folder find the “Caches” folder. Within the Caches folder find and delete the entire folder “Adobe InDesign”. I find that deleting the InDesign cache folder completely leads to a lasting change. 

For Windows Users: On Windows 7 and above the caches files are hidden. To find them go to the Control Panel and open Folder Options and then click the View tab. Then select “Show hidden files and folders” or “Show hidden files, folders or drive options” in Advanced Settings. Then delete (or rename) the folder at the end of this path: C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version [#]\<Language>\Cache.